Senior Consultant

You will provide data and insights consulting for a range of FMCG clients. You will help to improve efficiencies and drive growth through providing analysis, insights, and valuable recommendations. This involves discussing business challenges and providing advice based on market trends, clients’ financial capabilities and other key organisational factors.

You will manage any initiative that forms part of the ongoing service delivery as outlined in the service agreement.

Define business problems: Through consultations with clients extract day-to-day project briefs, reverse brief with hypothesis, and provide solutions appropriate to their business needs.

Deliver insight led solutions: Translate complex data into actional insights that help clients make informed decisions and achieve measurable outcomes.

Advanced Analytic Skills: Demonstrated ability to conceive, manage, and deliver fact-based analyses, with a focus on consumer solutions, providing clients with clear, actionable insights to inform strategy.

Utilise sales tools and platforms: Leverage Circana’s proprietary platforms (e.g. Unify+9, Liquid Data, Intelligence Suite) to support client engagements and solution delivery.

Work closely with clients to align on key milestones, desired outcomes, resources required and timeline for delivery.

Champion client success: Ensure client satisfaction by proactively addressing challenges, identifying growth opportunities, and delivering consistent value.

Own the account plan: Set engagement plan with clients, develop strategies and actions to achieve the objectives, ensure ongoing monitoring and adapt to business changes if required.

Build Strategic Relationships: Develop and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders across client organizations, including decision-makers and influencers.

Lead the execution and communication of Account Plan initiatives: Leverage appropriate account management tools (WIP, Key Events Calendar, KPI Scorecard, etc.) to ensure activities are delivered and timelines adhered to.

Manage clients’ expectations: Carefully plan own and team’s workload to ensure client satisfaction.

Drive Client Growth: Identify and pursue opportunities to expand client relationships by aligning Circana’s data and software solutions with their strategic goals and leveraging Circana thought leadership and subject matter experts.

Manage the Sales Cycle: Lead end-to-end sales processes including prospecting, needs assessment, solution development, negotiation, and closing.

Collaborate Cross-Functionally: Partner with internal teams (e.g., Client Insights, Product, and Analytics) to deliver integrated solutions and ensure client success.

Develop strategies and competitive differentiation for specific solution offerings.

Maintain Industry Expertise: Stay current on trends in CPG to position Circana as a thought leader and trusted advisor.

Achieve Revenue Targets: Meet or exceed individual and team sales goals through disciplined pipeline management and strategic account planning.

Generate quotes and manage the billings process: Manage the sales cycle of quotes, client sign off, raw data agency, billing instructions, forecasting update, invoice checking, PO sourcing.

Client retention: Support all activities in the client renewal process including completion of internal pricing sheets (Bluesheets), pricing committee collateral, presentation materials, client submission materials.

Support Innovation and Feedback: Provide market feedback to internal teams to help refine offerings and contribute to product development.

Consistently demonstrate Circana values and lead by example.

Create a collaborative, motivating and high performing team environment

Direct and oversee workload of direct report.

Manage ongoing performance and development of direct report, ensuring direct report has KPIs and development goals set.

Provide coaching and mentoring of direct reports and other junior members of the department to support their performance, growth, and development.

As well as the technical skills, experience and attributes that are required for the role, our shared behaviours sit at the core of our organisation. Therefore, we always look for people who can continuously champion these behaviours throughout the business within their day-to-day role:

Stay Curious: Being hungry to learn and grow, always asking the big questions

Seek Clarity: Embracing complexity to create clarity and inspire action

Own the Outcome: Being accountable for decisions and taking ownership of our choices

Center on the Client: Relentlessly adding value for our customers

Be a Challenger: Never complacent, always striving for continuous improvement

Champion Inclusivity: Fostering trust in relationships engaging with empathy, respect, and integrity

Commit to each other: Contributing to making Circana a great place to work for everyone